After glitch, 'New Heights' dropped 20 more minutes with Taylor Swift. What you missed.
"We hit a glitch but will be back shortly!!!" the show's X account wrote around 8:45 p.m. ET on Aug. 13, roughly an hour and 45 minutes into the episode's premiere.
The episode of the show, which is hosted by Swift's NFL player boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce, featured the singer's reveal of her upcoming album, "The Life of a Showgirl."
Over a million people were watching the stream when the glitch happened. The full recording, which is about two hours long, was available on Spotify.
"Swifties so powerful we broke the internet," WNBA star Caitlin Clark wrote in a post on X.
Shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 14, "New Heights" posted that the full episode was up on YouTube.
"Shoutout to the amazing team at @YouTube for helping get this fixed!!!" the show's account posted.
While many fans still caught the audio on other platforms, those streaming on YouTube might have missed the last 20 minutes, which featured a rapid fire question round. Here's what happened.
Taylor Swift reveals what inspired Eras Tour cleaning cart arrival
Swift confirmed that it was her idea to hide in a cleaning cart before going onstage at every Eras Tour show.
"I wanted to curate and really romanticize the images that (fans) were seeing first," Swift said. "So I didn't want them to see my first outfit and my first look which would have given away what the first era was."
She also said she initially planned to use the cart at the first show, but "then I just got attached to it."
"There's a weird little side of me that likes sneaking around and and I think the fans found it funny, too," she said. "They're like, 'What a weirdo. We've come to see a weirdo in concert. Why is she doing that?'"
How Jason Kelce's kids met Taylor Swift's cats
Travis Kelce revealed that Jason Kelce told his kids Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett and Finnley that cats are poisonous.
Swift said it made for "a great challenge" when the girls met her cats Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button.
"It was my goal to prove to them that they weren't poisonous," Swift said.
The singer said her cats "are so good with kids."
"They're like 'Meredith is here.' I'm like, 'Yep. And you know what? She didn't bite you at all, did she? No, she didn't. And if she did bite you, she wouldn't be poisonous,'" Swift said. "They're like, 'That's not what our dad said.' I'm like, 'Well, I heard you're getting a cat.'"
Was Taylor Swift in 'Happy Gilmore 2'?
After Travis Kelce appeared in "Happy Gilmore 2," internet conspiracists began theorizing that Swift may have made a secret cameo as a bear who attacks Kelce.
"Can you confirm or deny this rumor?" Jason Kelce asks, to which Swift says, "I can deny."
"We're just sort of at this point we're just like, 'Of course they think I'm inside of a bear costume," she said before adding, "I'm honored to be thought of in that context 'cause I loved that movie so much."
Taylor Swift on being on NFL field for first time: 'I've never seen this many cameras'
When asked about her "welcome to the NFL moment," Swift said it was the first time she stepped onto a field after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens in January 2024.
"Everybody's screaming and his mom goes, 'All right, let's go down to the field,'" Swift said. "And I was like, 'What? We're doing what?'"
She explained, "So I'm walking out onto this field and it's just like, 'Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. There's so many lights. I've never seen this many cameras. I've never seen this much media in my life.' And I've seen a lot of media."
Melina Khan is a national trending reporter for USA TODAY. She can be reached at melina.khan@usatoday.com.
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